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Dimensions 2016, National Juried Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Womble Carlyle Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC

Artist Statement:

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My artistic journey took me from geometric abstraction to representational painting that includes portraits, landscapes, and figures in a landscape. A certain degree of abstraction, sometimes very subtle, is present in all my new pieces. Perfect representation is impossible and I want to make it unmistakably clear that my art expresses my vision of the world. For example, I like to distort space when I paint a figure in a landscape. Immanuel Kant, whose philosophy I recently discovered, rejected the notion that a pure, a priori knowledge of a mind-independent world is possible.
I often paint creative, spiritual, and contemplative people, such as musicians absorbed in their music. Landscape is not just a backdrop for a human figure in my paintings. It might be a metaphor for a person’s inner life, or vice versa, a person might be a metaphor for a place.

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Biography:


Genia Yusim is a visual artist based in Greensboro, NC. She was born in Moscow, Russia and studied design and art at the Moscow Technological Institute, where she received a diploma in fashion and textile design. Following a decade long career as a textile designer in North Carolina, United States she completed a program in art education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is currently pursuing her passion for painting and exhibiting her work. Genia Yusim’s paintings have been selected for, among other shows, the 2017 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, NC, and the Dimensions 2016, National Juried Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC and can be found in collector’s homes and businesses, including PNC Bank, in the United States and abroad.

 

Exhibitions:

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2021

2020

2019 - 2020

  • Carolina Bohemian Jam: The Ultimate Hippie Tribute, Juried Exhibition, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC

2018

  • Winston-Salem All-Call, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Womble Carlyle Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC

2017

  • 2017 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Duke Energy Center for Performing Arts, Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2016

  • Solo Exhibit, Beth David Synagogue, Greensboro, NC

  • Dimensions 2016, National Juried Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Womble Carlyle Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC  

  •  Anything Goes 2016, Annual Juried Exhibit, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC     

2011

  • Location, Location, Location, All-member Juried Show, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

  • Summer in the City, All-member Show, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

  • Red, White, or Blue, All-member Show, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

2010                   

  • Cultural Crossroads, National Juried Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

  • Lines, All-member Show, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

1992  

  • XX annual youth exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists, Exhibition Hall Moscow House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

  • Fall 1992, Exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists, Exhibition Hall Moscow House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

  • Exhibition of Painting, Graphic Art and Decorative Art in the Japanese Garden, Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  • Mars Gallery, Moscow, Russia

  • Russian Centre for Information and Culture, Gdansk, Poland

1990

  • Color, Line, Stain, Exhibition of Graphic Art, Exhibition Hall on Malaya Gruzinskaya, Moscow, Russia

   

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